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A Dark Age Peter Principle: Beowulf's incompetence threshold

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A Dark Age Peter Principle: Beowulf's incompetence threshold

Auteurs : Oren Falk [États-Unis]

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Early Medieval Europe [ 0963-9462 ] ; 2010-02.

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- org : American Anthropologist, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Cornell University, Denmark, and Grendel, New Guinea Baruya, Papua–New-Guinea, Maurice, United Kingdom of England, Viking Congress.
- pers : A. Orchard, An Allegory, An Anthology, An Introduction, Anglo-Saxon, Arthur G. Brodeur, B. Brewster, B. Levick, C. Chase, C.R. Davis, Charles Homer, Christian Ethics, Craig Davis, D. Sahlins, D.N. Parsons, Danuta Shanzer, Doug Puett, E.B. Irving, E.G. Stanley, E.J. Stanley, Edward James, Eric Stanley, Even Grendel, F. Curta, F. Klaeber, Francis Peabody, G. Wall, G.V. Smithers, George Clark, Godelier, Guillaume Ratel, H. Berger, H. Whitehouse, H.M. Chadwick, H.M. Leicester, Harry Berger, Herbert Dean, Heroic Values, J. Campbell, J. Garde, J. Graham-Campbell, J. Halverson, J. Herman, J. Jesch, J. Leyerle, J.B. Bessinger, J.D. Niles, J.L. Rosier, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.W. Earl, James W. Earl, Jennifer Harris, John C. Pope, John Keane, John Lennon, John Leyerle, John Niles, K.F. Otterbein, K.J. Wanner, K.S. Kiernan, Ken Loach, King Beowulf, King Edmund, King Eowilisc, King Healden, L. Althusser, L. Carruthers, L. Lindstrom, L.E. Nicholson, L.F. Peter, La Question, La Société, Leo Carruthers, M. Beard, M. Godden, M. Godelier, M. Lapidge, M. Puhvel, M. Strathern, M.B. McNamee, M.D. Sahlins, Marshall Leicester, Max Weber, N. Garmonsway, N. Kroll, N.Z. Davis, Neil Gaiman, P. Brown, P. Clastres, P. Macherey, P. McCartney, P.H. Sawyer, P.R. Hyams, Paul, Paul Fouracre, Peter Principle, Pierre Clastres, R. Hall, R. Hawley, R. Hull, R. Hurley, R. Swyer, R. Zemeckis, R.B. Burlin, R.D. Fulk, R.E. Barton, R.E. Bjork, R.M. Glassman, R.P. Creed, R.W. Hanning, Roy Liuzza, S. Moyn, S.B. Green, T. Pàroli, Tolkien, W.H. Swatos, W.T.H. Jackson, Walter Goffart.
- place : Blackburn, Cambridge, England, Europe, Hollywood, Iceland, MA, Nottingham, Peterborough, St Edmund, Toronto, UK, Vanuatu, York.
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- Baruya, Beowulf, Beowulf handbook, Beowulf poet, Best interest, Blackwell, Blackwell publishing, Body social, Clastres, Contre, Dragon, Early medieval europe, East anglia, Emphasis original, English literature, English series, Eowilisc cyng, Falk, Final third, Geats, Germanic legend, Germanic philology, Golde bereafod, Grand hommes, Great warrior, Guerrier, Heroic code, Heroic ideal, Heroic king, Heroism, Honour, Ideological state apparatus, Incompetence, Incompetence threshold, Individual ambition, Individual hero, Kingship, Late state, Leyerle, Lutte contre, Medieval iceland, Medieval study, Minimal adaptation, Nile, Oren, Oren falk, Orig, Other hand, Other word, Personal prowess, Physical prowess, Power primitive society, Primitive society, Prowess, Repr, Ruler, Sahlins, Same time, Separate organ, Social logic, Social structure, Tolkien, Vantage point, Warrior.

Abstract

Many readers, recognizing the incompatibility of heroism with the duties of kingship, have argued that Beowulf tells a story of colossal failure. Drawing on anthropological theory, I propose that the protagonist is more Big‐Man than king and that his heroism, far from a socially dysfunctional flaw, is in fact the leash by which society yanks him back from establishing himself as king. Beowulf thus speaks to an aristocracy disinclined to submit to royalty. The poem shines a light on Anglo‐Saxons' aversion to despotic rule: to protect its own decentralized political structure, society against the state foredooms King Beowulf to death.

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0254.2009.00288.x

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A Dark Age Peter Principle: Beowulf's incompetence threshold

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